On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us>: > >> No, it isn't. Using '\' for line continuation is strongly discouraged. > > Why would you discourage valid syntax? >
Isn't that exactly the point of style guides? They stipulate/encourage a particular subset of valid syntax, and decry/discourage another subset. If ugly code were not syntactically valid, the style guide wouldn't need to say anything. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
